Wi-fi no mandriva

It was originally based off of Red Hat Linux, but diverged since then. In a time before Ubuntu and other modern, user-friendly Linux distributions, Mandrake offered an easy introduction to Linux that made it popular. Mandrake merged with Conectiva in , renaming itself Mandriva. In its early years, Canonical would actually mail you free Ubuntu installer CDs if you asked. This Linux distribution actually died long ago. The best way to find the driver is to boot into Windows and determine the name of the driver by visiting the Device Manager from the System option in the Windows Control Panel.

From there, open the properties of the wireless network device, click the Driver tab, and then view Driver Details. This will give you the name of the Windows driver, although this is not the file you want to use you will see something like BCMWL6. SYS, and while this file is important, it is not what you need for ndiswrapper; instead, the file to use with ndiswrapper would be BCMWL6.

If you do not have Windows currently installed, you will need to obtain the Windows driver online, via the wireless network card manufacturer's Web site or the manufacturer of the computer. Once you've provided MCC with the network card driver, it will install any required software such as the ndiswrapper package itself , bring the interface up, and start scanning for any wireless networks in range. At this point, you simply need to select the wireless network and provide any authentication credentials required to connect.

There is one caveat with ndiswrapper, however. If you are using a bit Linux distribution, you will have to provide a bit Windows driver. Likewise, a bit Linux distribution will require a bit Windows driver to work with ndiswrapper. If you cannot find a bit driver, you may have to install the bit version of your Linux distribution if you wish to use the wireless network card.

You can also perform the installation of the driver completely via ndiswrapper, which may be useful for distributions that don't have the nice management interface that Mandriva does. For instance, to install the driver and then to write the appropriate module information for modprobe, use:. This will get ndiswrapper to install the driver. Hence, I activated it with modprobe : modprobe ipw It created a device called eth1 eth0 was reserved for wired connection. Labels: Intel , ipw , Mandriva , Mandriva , wireless.

No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. After installing mplayer-gui package, I can't start it. A small detail that comes to mind, Mandriva uses the classic network icon rather than a generic symbol used in most other distributions, which is a very commendable step toward average users.

Then I had my first connection failure, but after that, there were no issues. You also get big, happy popups in the system area informing you of your connection attempts. Bluetooth was not activated by default, which is something that most KDE4 desktop seem to do. Going through the menus, you'll find the KBluetooth entry.

Once fired up, it works well, though. Mandriva One comes with all the codecs you need, so you can start enjoying your media encoded in proprietary formats immediately. No hassle, no codec issues, just plug and play.

I loved it. Windows video, my famous Moron video, played well, but the screenshot utility did not catch the video frame, so you'll have to believe me on this one. Flash was great too. MP3 playback worked great, too. There was a glitch in running Amarok in live session, though. It would show the splash, but would not switch to the GUI.

If you clicked on the splash, it would vanish, but the music would continue playing, only you would not have an interface to control your music. We'll see if this persists in the installed system later.

I ever tried playing several files at the same time. Everything was fine, with good sound quality and clarity, with all the sound channels working as expected.

I loved the theme in Mandriva The blue was simply great, the fonts were clear and sexy. Here's a couple of examples of what you may expect from Mandriva Now, here's an ever better trick that emphasizes the KDE4 sweetness. I've taken screenshots of my live session and saved the images to a folder on a USB drive. Now, what do you think the folder preview icon in the right column displays? Yes, you guessed it right, it displays thumbnails of the very screenshots I took - not a generic image, but one created on the fly from the folder content!

Mandriva uses the classic menu that you're more accustomed to in KDE3. Again, for common users, this is a very good thing, since they get what they already know. Clicking on the menu entries, both left and right mouse click, opens the application. There is no easy way to add icons to the desktop or the panel, at least not any that I've found during my testing. I might be dumb, but so are most people, in a good sort of a way. On the other hand, you'll find most-common accessed applications and functions stacked at the top of the menu as you start using the distribution, plus there's the Favorites entry, which contains most of what ordinary people need.

One more item that should help you locate your applications is the self-completing Run Command tool, which will automatically search for relevant items. Plus, it has a few other useful features that you can use. Control Center can be launched from a shortcut icon in the bottom panel, giving you access to all system settings and configurations. This is quite similar to YaST, except that it's ever simpler to use and navigate, with a clean, fresh, open feel.

Using Control Center, I tried to install the drivers and test Compiz. I tried this first on T42, because it was important for me to see if it had the same issues like Ubuntu or whether the right drivers were missing from the repos like with openSUSE. I had to download additional packages, but because my repositories were not yet configured, it did not work. So I had to postpone the Compiz check to after the installation. So far, I was really pleased. Mandriva was not perfect, but it was really, really good.

But this was only the beginning of my testing. The true fun was about to come. Mandriva installation has always been a little tedious. You have the network configuration in live session, the install, network configuration again after the first boot, user settings, and the registration. All in all, too long. The installation is virtually identical to previous versions. However, some things have been simplified, like the partitioning layout. First of all, DrakX wizard offers to use existing partitions, which is not bad, you just have to be careful not to delete existing data.

My T42 machine had a Ubuntu 9. Using DrakX in Mandriva is somewhat simpler than in previous versions. The elements are arranged more ergonomically and are more intuitive.